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The pullback on issuing traffic tickets may be leading to more fatal accidents involving teens, or at least that’s what personal injury/criminal defense lawyer Robert Gregg says.

Gregg said the following in a recent email from his spokesman:

If drivers are running more red lights, speeding and violating the law without consequences, you’re going to see more wrecks and injuries… Teens especially need to know that there are serious consequences for reckless driving. This drop in traffic enforcement also represents a significant loss in revenue at a time when city and county budgets are very tight.

Gregg’s spokesman cited an 18 percent increase in teen fatalities statewide between the first half of 2010 and the first half of 2011. Between 2007 and 2011 the number of traffic tickets statewide has dropped 10 percent.